
Discovering the Laws of Life.
Title:
Discovering the Laws of Life.
Author:
Templeton, Sir John.
ISBN:
9781599474557
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Week One -- A : The golden rule -- B : Listen to learn -- C : It is better to love than to be loved -- D : Thanksgiving leads to having more to give thanks for -- E : You cannot be lonely if you help the lonely -- Week Two -- A : You are sought after if you reflect love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control -- B : A smile breeds a smile -- C : None knows the weight of another's burden -- D : Agape given grows, wape hoarded dwindles -- E : A measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere -- Week Three -- A : Giving friendship is more rewarding than giving luxuries -- B : Love given is love received -- C : Laws of life guide your actions and reactions -- D : Pray without ceasing -- E : The impossible is the untried -- Week Four -- A : I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him -- B : Success is a journey, not a destination -- C : An attitude of gratitude creates blessings -- D : Enthusiasm is contagious -- E : You fear what you do not understand -- Week Five -- A : Love has the patience to endure the fault we cannot cure -- B : Nothing can bring you peace but yourself -- C : The unexamined life is not worth living -- D : Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul -- E : You are only as good as your word -- Week Six -- A : Where there's a will there's a way -- B : The borrower is servant to the lender -- C : There is no limit in the universe -- D : A loving person lives in a loving world -- E : Count your blessings and you will have an attitude of gratitude -- Week Seven -- A : We learn more by welcoming criticism than by rendering judgment -- B : Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
C : When the one great scorekeeper comes, he counts not whether you won or lost but how you played the game -- D : We tend to find what we look for: good or evil, problems or solutions -- E : Fill every unforgiving moment with sixty seconds of distance run -- Week Eight -- A : Every ending is a new beginning -- B : The only way to have a friend is to be a friend -- C : Man is what he believes -- D : The dark of night is not the end of the world -- E : Revenge is devilish and forgiveness is saintly -- Week Nine -- A : Helpfulness, not wilf!ullness, brings rewards -- B : Birds of a feather flock together -- C : Crime doesn't pay -- D : You can make opposition work for you -- E : Small attempts repeated will complete any undertaking -- Week Ten -- A : No one knows what he can do until he tries -- B : 'Tis the part of the wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket -- C : Thoughts are things -- D : As within, so without -- E : A stitch in time saves nine -- Week Eleven -- A : Perseverence makes the difference between success and defeat -- B : The secret of a productive life can be sought and found -- C : Enthusiasm breeds achievement -- D : The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world -- E : It is better to praise than to criticize -- Week Twelve -- A : Laughter is the best medicine -- B : Progress depends on diligence and perseverence -- C : Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly light -- D : Love conquers all things -- E : If you do not know what you want to achieve with your life, you may not achieve much -- Week Thirteen -- A : The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention -- B : Everyone and everything around you is your teacher -- C : Hitch your wagon to a star -- D : The price of greatness is responsibility -- E : Good words are worth much and cost little.
Week Fourteen -- A : You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem -- B : Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but in being the right person -- C : We receive freely when we give freely -- D : The truth will make you free -- E : If you would find gold, you must search where gold is -- Week Fifteen -- A : Habit is the best of servants, the worst of masters -- B : Man cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose sight of the shore -- C : Men are punished by their sins, not for them -- D : Accentuate the positive -- eliminate the negative -- E : Forgiving uplifts the forgiver -- Week Sixteen -- A : The light of understanding dissolves the phantoms of fear -- B : It's better to lead than to push -- C : Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread -- D : Love is something if you give it away -- E : Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind -- Week Seventeen -- A : Progress requires change -- B : Chance favors the prepared -- C : A good reputation is more valuable than money -- D : Your life becomes what you think -- E : To err is human, to forgive is divine -- Week Eighteen -- A : What is of all things most yielding can overcome that which is the most hard -- B : The seven deadly sins are: pride, lust, sloth, envy, anger, covetousness and gluttony -- C : Never do anything that you'll have to punish yourself for -- D : It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness -- E : To be forgiven, we must first forgive -- Week Ninteen -- A : Reverse the word EVIL and you have the word LIVE -- B : He who has a why for which to live, can bear with almost any how -- C : If at first you don't succeed, try, try again -- D : The family that prays together stays together -- E : There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something -- Week Twenty.
A : Lost time is never found again -- B : When you rule your mind, you rule your world -- C : Happiness comes from spiritual wealth not material wealth -- D : Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled -- E : By giving, you grow -- Week Twenty-One -- A : Enthusiasm facilitates achievement -- B : You have the most powerful weapons on earth--love and prayer -- C : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent -- D : Who gossips to you will gossip of you -- E : Find a need and fill it -- Week Twenty-Two -- A : If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking -- B : No person was ever honored for what he received, but for what he gave -- C : World progress needs entrepreneurs -- D : Expect the best -- convert problems into opportunities -- E : Give blessings -- Week Twenty-Three -- A : The seeds of destruction are sown in anger -- B : You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense -- C : There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer -- D : The wise person looks within his heart and finds eternal peace -- E : Be prepared -- Week Twenty-Four -- A : You are on the road to success if you realize that failure is only a detour -- B : Thanksgiving leads to giving and forgiving, and to spiritual growth -- C : Give credit and help to all who have helped you -- D : Self-control leads to success -- E : Your thoughts are like boomerangs -- Week Twenty-Five -- A : Often, a pat on the back works better than a kick in the pants -- B : A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger -- C : Little things mean a lot -- D : To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have -- E : Honesty is the best policy -- Week Twenty-Six -- A : It is always darkest before the dawn.
B : Healthy minds tend to cause healthy bodies and vice versa -- C : To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it -- D : What the mind can conceive, it may achieve -- E : Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important -- Week Twenty-Seven -- A : The pen is mightier than the sword -- B : Wisdom is born of mistakes -- confront error and learn -- C : Great heroes are humble -- D : You create your own reality -- E : A task takes as long as there is time to do it -- Week Twenty-Eight -- A : Procrasthiation is the thief of time -- B : If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all -- C : You can build your own heaven or hell on earth -- D : Beauty is but skin deep -- E : Worry is a rocking chair that gives you something to do, but never gets you anywhere -- Week Twenty-Nine -- A : Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it -- B : Where there is no vision the people perish -- C : The greatness is not in me -- I am in the greatness -- D : Laugh and the world laughs with you -- weep and you weep alone -- E : If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained -- Week Thirty -- A : Self-control wins the race -- B : Love thy neighbor as thyself -- C : Freedom is a fact of life -- D : Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom -- E : Thanksgiving, not complaining, attracts people to you -- Week Thirty-One -- A : Ask not what you can expect of life -- ask what life expects of you -- B : A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame others -- C : A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder -- D : Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul -- E : A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes -- Week Thirty-Two -- A : Seeking entertainment prevents greatness.
B : What you resist, you draw to yourself.
Abstract:
"Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character." -Billy Graham "This is a book that belongs to the list of seminal publications of the twentieth century. How grateful the world will be that John Templeton has shared his secret openly, forthrightly, packed with integrity and healing powers." -Robert Schuller Formerly published by Continuum in1994.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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